Dance was always part of my life because I was a dancer and my mother was a dancer, and I love the theater.

I like a certain style of show, I like a certain pace, I like a rhythm, I like a lot of comedy in with my drama.

People have nannies and big cars, and they want to go to Maui for Christmas. When there are those kind of stakes involved, people get ruthless.

Life doesn't tend to fix things or wrap them up in bows.

To me, crazy is not someone who has a creative vision and will fight for it.

When you write for a show that's not yours, your job is to hear the voices of the characters and write as best you can for those voices.

Every pilot I've ever written, I've fallen deeply and madly in love with. It's the only way I work.

TV is all about speed. TV is fast and furious. It's gunslinger territory.

These television shows that have 14 shots of somebody looking at each other with the wind blowing through their hair drive me insane.

If we based everything in Hollywood on who was a nice guy, holy moly, we would have no movies. No actors would work. This is not an industry that is ruled by kindness and generosity.

The whole world is out of time!

You will find the peace, not by looking outside, but by changing your thoughts, feelings and perception inside.

This is central to the development of feminist abolitionist theories and practices: we have to learn how to think and act and struggle against that which is ideologically constituted as "normal".

In your tragedies you will find your most magnificent opportunities for rebirth.

My studies with Botvinnik brought me immense benefit, particularly the homework assignments which forced me to refer to chess books and to work independently.

I think nothing ever ends on Disney Channel. They keep playing it.

If someone gave the Russians a football, they'd win the Super Bowl in two years.

Cease to admire the smoke, wealth, and noise of prosperous Rome.

Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it.

Do I think Cate Blanchett is the most spectacular creature that ever walked the planet? Yes, I do.